Ahead of their time

The Belfast Telegraph asks journalist Lesley Bootiman bookish questions.

My favour­ite clas­sic reads

I was soon drawn to the Brontë sis­ters. It wasn’t just the books, of course, it was also their story. How could you not feel pity at their situ­ation but also envy that they were able to share their writ­ing with their sib­lings? I have a battered antho­logy of Jane Eyre,

Wuther­ing Heights and The Ten­ant of Wild­fell Hall right by my desk. Char­lotte’s Jane Eyre will always call to me.

The writ­ing is decept­ively simple but the story fas­cin­at­ing, if chilling, and the heroine, as in so many of their books, ahead of her time.

If you're interested in a diva imbroglio of Sky Ferreria accusing Charli XCX using old songs of hers for her Wuthering Heights album, then this is your news story. Movie Locations shares the filming locations used for Wuthering Heights 1970.

Wuthering Heights Adaptations Discussed in Porto Alegre

An alert for tomorrow, April 6 in Porto Alegre, Brazil:

Cinema | FILMES & LIVROS (+ conversa)

Encontro 1: Livro e Adaptação para o Cinema de "O Morro Dos Ventos Uivantes", de Emily Brontë:

Sala Redenção, R. Eng. Luiz Englert, 333 - Farroupilha, Porto Alegre - RS, 90040-040, Brazil

April 6, 3:00 – 6:00pm

“O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes”, lançado em 1847, foi o único romance de Emily Brontë. A violência e paixão como retratou a relação entre os personagens Catherine Earnshaw e Heathcliff, na remota e hostil charneca do Morro dos Ventos Uivantes, escandalizou a sociedade vitoriana. Com o passar do tempo, a obra tornou-se um clássico da literatura inglesa e foi várias vezes adaptada para a televisão e o cinema.ç

Wuthering Heights 1992 + Talk with Fatimarlei Lunaderlli

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All three were keen walkers

In The Times, Sophia Money-Coutts writes about walking.

It’s probably fair to say that as a teenager I was overly influenced by the heroines of period dramas. Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility was my favourite because she is so dreamily romantic — so romantic that she nearly dies for love, and as a cloistered girl in a single-sex boarding school that seemed an appropriate level of drama to me. I was further impressed by the sass of Lizzy Bennet from Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre’s inner turmoil. Additionally, I noted with interest, all three were keen walkers.

For these women, walking seemed to be a way of dealing with feelings and thrashing out thoughts. 

The Nerd Daily asks bookish questions to writer Rebecca Morrison.

Tell us:

The first book you ever remember reading: Jane Eyre

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Reconsidering and (De)Mythifying Brontëan Bodies

This is a recent scholarly book in English and Spanish with Brontë-related content:

Narrativas y voces angloamericanas y gaélicas en clave feminista

Edited by Rocío Riestra Camacho

Dykinson Libros

Colección: Escritoras y Escrituras

ISBN: 9788413775753

El lenguaje, como facultad humana idiosincrática, parece haber otorgado a las mujeres una cierta ventaja sobre los hombres a lo largo de la historia. Cuando estas han tenido que vencer, uno tras otro, los desafíos auspiciados por las diferencias, desigualdades y estereotipias de género, la capacidad del lenguaje ha sido para las mujeres una vía alternativa a lo que para los hombres era más fácilmente accesible en términos de poder político, autoría, propiedad o agencia. Concretamente, a lo largo de la evolución, las mujeres han desarrollado una gran potencialidad para el uso de la fluencia verbal y las analogías (Amor Andrés 587), ambas características fundamentales a la hora de crear narrativas y poder poner voz a sus ideas y anhelos. La lengua inglesa ha sido, dada la hegemonía socio geopolítica de los países en los que se utiliza como lengua materna, segunda lengua o bien como idioma extranjero, un vehículo privilegiado para tales fines, y lo cierto es que sigue siéndolo en la actualidad. Estados Unidos, Inglaterra, Irlanda, Escocia o Canadá pero también Puerto Rico o Jamaica son algunos de los territorios en los que nos adentraremos en el recorrido filológico que hace esta obra. Narrativas y voces angloamericanas y gaélicas en clave feminista pone de manifiesto estas realidades, al colocar el foco en un fantástico y variopinto elenco de mujeres a las que la historia y las letras en y de la lengua inglesa no consiguieron silenciar. Comencemos, pues, nuestro viaje.

One of the chapters is:

Reconsiderando y (des)mitificando cuerpos brontëanos a través de narrativas neo-victorianas by Marta Bernabeu Lorenzo

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Jane and Rochester Take the Polygraph

University Times (Ireland) reviews Wuthering Heights 2026:

Adaptations have never been obligated to reproduce their sources with documentary precision and to some, it is entirely possible to enjoy a film that misreads its literary predecessor. As I’ve stated before in a review on Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of Frankenstein (2025), the question is not simply whether the film works, but what it works as. When a reinterpretation has stripped away major elements that give the classic novel its disturbing force, what remains may still function as an engaging piece of cinema, but only that. In my opinion, Fennell’s film succeeds in theatres, but not on the terms that matter most, and certainly not as Wuthering Heights. (Lily Braumberger)

Hidustan Times lists "savage reviews that are more fun than the movies they trash":

Wuthering Heights (2026). After two movies with no real plot, Emerald Fennell’s next victim was Emily Brontë’s classic. She turned the gothic novel about class and racism into smutty fanfic. Letterboxd user Allian complained: “Emily Brontë died of tuberculosis 177 years ago, yet this adaptation is still the worst thing that has ever happened to her.” RIP Margot Robbie’s Catherine, you would have loved Fifty Shades of Grey. (Tanya Syed)

The Times recommends watching the film, now streaming:

 Emerald Fennell directs this loose adaptation of the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë. Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as Heathcliff and Catherine in the Yorkshire moors, who are bonded by the shared trauma of abuse by her father (an excellent Martin Clunes). But when she is swept up into the world of a wealthy neighbour, Edgar Linton (Shazad Latif), Catherine is torn between the desire for Heathcliff and the chance of stability and wealth. It’s a bold film that divided critics — now it’s your chance to decide from the comfort of your sofa. (Jake Helm and Tim Glanfield)

Also in The Times, Brian Cox jokes about the film:

Today Cox will even go “full Dundee” on a film he hasn’t even seen. I know Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon’s 1939 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights is a favourite of his and wondered what he made of the new one starring Margot Robbie.

“ ‘Keith Cliff! It’s me, Cathy!’ ” he declaims suddenly in a cod Australian accent (Robbie was once in the Australian soap Neighbours). “‘How ya doing, Keith? Awright?’ ‘Yeah, I’m awright!’ ”

Cox enjoys a hearty chuckle before composing himself.

“Margot Robbie is far too beautiful for that role. I mean, I think there should be something more of the Gypsy about her but it’s wrong of me to judge. It may be a brilliant film.” (Michael Odell)

Movie-Locations publishes a comprehensive list of all the locations of the film:

The radical new version of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights uses the real moors of North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, while surprisingly also including a little glimpse of Kent, too. Now find out exactly where.

Far Out Magazine retells the story of how the birth of Because the Night by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith... and, in a way, Emily Brontë:

However, the final piece of the puzzle comes from far off from New York. Part of it came from Michigan as Smith, on the track in one night, yearned for a call from her then-boyfriend but soon-to-be husband, Fred Smith, who was on tour at the time. But really, her masterclass in yearning came from years before and miles away, rooting all the way back to Haworth in Yorkshire, and to Brontë country. 

The Brontë sisters, and in particular, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, were by no means a new reference to her in the late 1970s. Instead, this was a book she’d loved since being a kid, but had come to understand better and better with each re-read as she grew up. By 1977, when she was now in her 30s and intensely in love with the man she’d marry, the adoration and emotion written by Brontë in that book took on new life. She was yearning for a man who was far away, just as Cathy and Heathcliff spent a lifetime yearning for one another. 

With the chorus of a love song on her hands, Wuthering Heights came to mind as the ultimate Patti Smith way to finish it off, allowing her to bring in poetry and literary reference. The result was a huge hit, giving Smith her first commercial smash and Springsteen another victory under his belt.

In 2014, Smith wrote a foreword for a new version of the book, musing, “In the writing of Wuthering Heights, she did not give what she wanted; she gave what she had”. It seemed to be the case for her song, too, as her more impassioned tune came together in one night. But her passion is matched by her love for the Brontë’s, as in 2013, she played a concert in the tiny Yorkshire town simply to raise money to keep their home open to the public. (Lucy Harbron)

A first edition copy of the novel, a thing we're sure Patti Smith would enjoy seeing, is at the Rare Books Collection at the University of Buffalo: 

With a new film adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” now in theaters, interest in Emily Brontë’s iconic novel is once again on the rise. But more than 175 years before the story returned to movie screens, one of its earliest printed forms had already quietly found a home in Buffalo.

UB’s Rare Books Collection offers an illuminating window into one of fiction’s most enduring stories — and the lengths one woman went to tell it.

The collection holds a first British edition of “Wuthering Heights,” the only novel written by Emily Brontë. Published in December 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell, the book was issued in three volumes — a common format for British fiction of the period, known as a “triple-decker” novel. While the exact print run of this edition is unknown, it is thought to have been only 250 copies. 

It is worth noting that “Wuthering Heights” comprises only the first two volumes of the set. The third contains “Agnes Grey,” a novel by Anne Brontë — a reminder that the triple-decker format sometimes bundled works together to meet the required length. (Denise Wolfe)

BBC Bitesize publishes a hilarious a "social media parody" with Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester. Part of the Literally1 Social Media Parodies series:

Mr Rochester and Governess Jane Eyre take the on the polygraph lie detector test in this social media parody.´

Jane Eyre was chosen as the best novel to read on a rainy day, as it is recalled in Parade. 

More Jane Eyre references. Like this article in The Times about weddings from hell in fiction: 

Just in time for wedding season to kick off in earnest, The Drama is released in cinemas today. It joins a formidable canon of disastrous wedding stories stretching back to Victorian marriage novels (remember how Jane Eyre’s nuptials are rudely interrupted by the revelation that Mr Rochester is already married?), via 1930s Hollywood screwballs (there’s a beautiful shot of Claudette Colbert fleeing the altar in Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, yards of tulle streaming out behind her). (Susie Goldsbrough)

Regrettably, not everybody loves Jane. The author Sarah Hall doesn't, as she confesses in The Guardian:

The book I could never read again

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Glad to have met Jane, but I seem to remember the book was quite whingey (forgive me, Brontë congregationalists). It led me to Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, which I gladly return to.

The Express Bank Holiday Quiz includes the question:

 Which Brontë sister wrote the novel Agnes Grey?

The New York Review explores the poetry of Alfred Tennyson:

The brooding atmosphere at Somersby rectory recalls that of the Brontës’ Haworth parsonage, eighty miles due north, and headed by another weapon-wielding, Cambridge-educated clergyman. Like the Brontës, the Tennysons shunned outside company and clung together in what sounds like intense trauma bonding. (Kathryn Hughes)

If you're interested in looking at how a bunch of TikTokers film in Haworth and Bronté country, and you enjoy second-hand cringe, check this post. 

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Meninas Exemplares

A new exhibition at the Casa das Hist
órias Paula Rego in Cascais, Portugal, featuring her Jane Eyre series:

Meninas exemplares

Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais

31 Mar '25 - 31 Jan '26

Partindo do núcleo de obras apresentadas na exposição Meninas exemplares, organizada pela FDL I/CHPR no Museu Grão Vasco, e outras que acompanharam a apresentação do filme de João Botelho As meninas exemplares em vários cineteatros de norte a sul de Portugal, a nova exposição na Casa das Histórias Paula Rego destaca as meninas-mulheres na obra da artista. O título desta exposição remete para o texto literário Meninas exemplares, da Condessa de Ségur (1799–1874), que cativou a artista desde a sua infância. Os contos da Condessa de Ségur e, entre eles, Os desastres de Sofia, editados em Portugal pela Coleção Azul, são por ela lidos avidamente quando ainda criança. Contam as histórias de raparigas bem-nascidas que se portam terrivelmente, causando problemas. (...)

A soberania da dimensão psicológica destas meninas-mulheres não depende tanto das histórias de onde são quase sempre resgatadas; muitas vezes, o que exponencia a construção do caráter é a intensificação da sua presença nos desenhos, pinturas e gravuras, quando a solidez da sua matéria corpórea é evidenciada pelo virtuosismo da representação realista. Os corpos revelam vivências e estados emocionais que são expressos através da representação de sensações físicas, colocando-nos diretamente no seu centro afetivo. Exemplar neste aspeto é a última litografia da série “Jane Eyre” (Sala 3), Vem a mim, de 2001–02, que é decisiva para o tratamento psicológico da personagem principal, Jane, sugerindo a sua complexidade, a sua hesitação em aceitar um destino que será sempre, de certo modo, sacrificial. Estas litografias coloridas resultam de uma apropriação transformadora do romance vitoriano da escritora Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) e destacam o sofrimento, a determinação e o caráter independente da sua protagonista. Tanto nesta série, como na série “Bruxas de Pendle”, inspirada nos poemas homónimos de Blake Morrison (Sala 3), de 1996, há imagens que estabelecem uma poderosa relação entre a natureza feminina e o seu domínio da natureza (Amando Bewick, Pântano de Whinny, por exemplo).

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My obsession with Wuthering Heights

The Paris Review publishes a fascinating account of the Edna Clarke Hall Wuthering Heights illustrations (which have been collected recently in a new edition of the novel):

Holed up in their mansion, Great Tomkyns, in Essex, she felt “deserted,” isolated and adrift without her art. It was around this time that she first began to sketch scenes from Wuthering Heights, the book on which she would ruminate for the next three decades of her life.

Edna Clarke Hall was certainly not the first or last sensitive bourgeois girl to be creatively consumed by Emily Brontë’s vision of the North. The author’s fictional Gimmerton, with its heavy Northern vernacular, was quite far indeed from sunny Edwardian Essex, with its polite croquet and cucumber sandwiches. “It held me in its grip as no other book ever had,” Hall wrote. “Was it the long lonely days at home, the isolation of the house in the wider setting of the landscape, the beams of Great Tomkyns which I still felt in my bones and which so reminded me of this book?” But it was the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff that especially obsessed her. At times, Hall would dress up as the characters so as to model their clothes for her sketches. “I lived the characters of Heathcliff and Catherine myself, I simply was them,” she explained. “It was something that had come to pass in a deeply unconscious way. I just had to draw Wuthering Heights.”

Imagining the story awoke something in the long-inactive artist. Brontë’s novel served as both an escape from and a reflection of her own unhappy marriage. (Unsurprisingly, there are no drawings dated after her husband’s death in 1932.) In “Heritage of Ages,” Hall described feeling almost possessed by the need to draw its characters. “I drew them all one evening, I was quite alone, Willie was away. I could not stop,” she wrote. She produced the same compositions in many different styles. “I had such a strong feeling for it, I seemed to work under a spell. I did one after the other, scattering the sketches about like a maniac … My obsession with Wuthering Heights was so persistent that for years these drawings used to slide out of my mind with complete ease.” 

Hall’s devotion to rendering the tortured lovers yielded hundreds of drawings, prints, and watercolors, many of which have been lost or squirreled away in private collections. A selection of her works spent the past decades mostly unnoticed in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Ashmolean in Oxford—until this spring, when a new illustrated edition of the novel united thirty of Hall’s sketches with the text for the first time. (Sarah Hyde)

The Candor joins the chorus of those who consider Wuthering Heights 2026 a failure. Although the first paragraph of the review is a bit bizarre:

Wuthering Heights is a divisive novel. It is, at times, called the “greatest love story of all time,” but rejected as a romance for the depravity of its content at others. At the time of its publication, Anne Brontë (???) often simplified and cushioned its ideas to make it more palatable to the sensibilities of the English audience.(??) (...)

An ideal Wuthering Heights adaptation for the modern audience would aim to convey and draw attention to societal concerns similar to how Emily Bronte did. The Victorian problem of race is not much different than our modern one; how does an immigrant assimilate? What must a person of color do in a hostile environment to be respected? What does racism-driven abuse, or even abuse in general, do to a person? How do we break free of those cycles of trauma and anger? They’re all relevant questions!

The novel’s cyclical nature could also be used to reflect how repetitive our modern lives often feel, and the Catherine-Heathcliff pairing could serve as a vehicle to explore intersectional issues of oppression and expectation. There is meaningful work that can be done with a novel like this; work that isn’t just entertaining romance, but rather something that carries on the legacy of the original author by addressing real problems and issues while still being undeniably beautiful. (Zoha Quadri)

Unsurprisingly, World Socialist Web Site has not love the film:

In other hands, this might be interesting. But Fennell is relatively indifferent to the actual pauperisation of Heathcliff, whose exclusion takes the form of being made a servant. She is more interested in Nelly, because this is an injustice within the middle class milieu she inhabits.

Brontë’s primordial passion plays out often inarticulately in the mechanics of land ownership and household establishment. Fennell wants a passion disconnected from its social context. She is trying to create the impression of significance by a rather desperate recourse to ever more superficial effects.

Is this all that contemporary audiences can hope or look for in Wuthering Heights? Hardly. Brontë’s visceral and astonishing novel is rooted not just in a brutal landscape, but in a real world of class distinction and savagery that must find reflection in the passions of our daily lives. It is, in this sense, a genuine and exceptional work of art.
Fennell is seeking only the blandest of consolations for a very limited fraction of the upper middle class. Brontë does not exclude consolation, but there is nothing simplistic or simplified in her novel of the emotions. There is far more there than Fennell can find. (Paul Bond)

Esquire lists the film among the "sexiest movies in 2026 so far":

Love it or hate it, Emerald Fennell's visually hearty take on Wuthering Heights is all her own. (The poster refers to it as "Wuthering Heights," scare quotes and all, to convey that this is a conscious take on Emily Brontë's classic—not a canonical retelling.) One of Fennell's most notable insertions is sex, particularly that between Cathy (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi). We see Cathy's sexual awakening—she watches people have sex through floorboards and masturbates soon after. And then, in the throes of her secret romance with Heathcliff, there's a montage set to Charli XCX's "Funny Mouth."

Cathy and Heathcliff make out in the rain, then in a carriage, and she eventually rides him (in both contexts). He performs oral on her during a sun shower, and she sits on his lap outside among the wily, windy moors. They are almost entirely (and sumptuously!) clothed during these encounters. Later, they have more clothed sex on a table as they discuss Cathy's husband, Edgar, whom she is cheating on with Heathcliff. "This is how you love him?" asks Heathcliff as he thrusts into her. Though brief—and, again, covered up—these scenes were enough to prompt The Economist to blare in a headline: "Sex, sex and more sex." For the stodgy and easily scandalized, Fennell clearly hit a nerve. (Rich Juzwiak)

An alert for today, April 2, in Porto Alegre (Brazil):

Ciclo “Filmes & Livros”  

Sessão de abertura

O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes

(Dir. William Wyler | 1939 | EUA | 103 min | Drama | 12A)

Após ser acolhido por uma família rural inglesa, Heathcliff desenvolve uma relação intensa e destrutiva com Catherine Earnshaw. Separados por convenções sociais, seu vínculo obsessivo gera consequências trágicas que se estendem por anos.

02/04 | quinta-feira | 16h

Sala Redenção – Cinema Universitário 

Rua Engenheiro Luiz Englert, 333 – campus centro da UFRGS (Via El Matinal)

According to InsightTrendsWorld, "Wuthering Heights [2026] Made the Basque-Waist Dress Fashion's Most Wanted Silhouette". The Yorkshire Evening Post has a sponsored article (and most probaby AI written) above cultural events celebrating the Brontë country this spring. Finally, check out this great diorama showing how the Parsonage area could look around 1845, made by Brontë Parsonage Museum volunteer Paul.

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HeAIthcliff

More AI scum:

Heathcliff, The Dark Man Awakens: A gothic reimagining of Heathcliff's Missing Years from Wuthering Heights

by Slas Clayton

Wolf Moon Books

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GLHR2VQV

February 2026

What happens to Heathcliff in the years he disappears from Wuthering Heights?

When Heathcliff vanishes from the moors, he leaves behind humiliation, hunger, and a house that never truly let him belong. Three years later he returns a wealthy, dangerous man—changed beyond recognition, carrying a fortune no one can explain.

This novel enters that silence.

Set against the brutal campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, this dark gothic historical fiction reimagines Heathcliff’s missing years: from a London inn and a prison cell to the smoke-choked battlefields of the Peninsular War, where class dissolves under cannon fire and a man’s worth is measured by survival. Enlisting as a private, Heathcliff learns the cruel mathematics of war—how violence, discipline, and patronage can remake a man, and how power is gathered not only with steel, but with patience.

As Europe burns, Heathcliff moves through army camps and battlefield chaos, catching the attention of men who see in him either a weapon or a threat. His fortune is not won by chance, but by blood, endurance, and a dangerous alliance that will follow him long after the guns fall silent.

Haunting, atmospheric, and unflinching, this is a gothic reimagining of Wuthering Heights—a story of exile, ambition, and transformation, where love curdles into obsession and absence becomes a forge.

For readers of dark literary fiction, historical war novels, and classic retellings with teeth.

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You Can't Stop Thinking About

LouReviews revisits all the film, TV, and stage play adaptations of Jane Eyre that the writer of the post has seen.

Mamamia interviews the writer Natasha Lesher on her new book, which is a sort of Jane Eyre retelling in a way, The Chateau on Sunset:

A modern retelling of Jane Eyre.

Natasha drew much of her inspiration from classic literature. 

"It's a bit like what Emerald Fennell said about Wuthering Heights," she said. "She's made a movie that captures how she felt about the book as a teenager."

"When I read Jane Eyre as a teenager — in fact, I was only like 10... the overwhelming impression was of these very passionate people who got swept away with each other. It was all very, very vivid."

In Jane Eyre, Jane longs to see the world before encountering her love interest, Mr Rochester. Revisiting the novel, Natasha wanted more for the protagonist than just love. 

"I feel like Jane kind of missed out on what she truly wanted in many ways," Natasha said. "I feel like there's an alternative ending, a different story that would be more satisfying…The Chateau on Sunset is, how could we give Jane Eyre the ending she truly deserves?" (Cassandra Green)

The Telegraph & Argus presents the new book by Simon Ross Valentine, Churches of Bradford:

In Churches of Bradford, a new book published by Amberley, I take readers on a whistle stop tour of 50 of the district’s most intriguing churches. (...)

The ruins of Old Bell Chapel in Thornton hold a special place in literary history. Patrick Brontë served here from 1815 to 1820, and Charlotte, Anne, Emily and Branwell Brontë were all baptised within its walls. The font used for their baptisms now stands across the road in St James’ Church. (Simon Ross Valentine)

The Glasgow Guardian reviews Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights:

I’m sure Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is fun without an English major lamenting about the social context of the novel and pointing out the racism present in this adaptation. The film is visually stunning, it hits the right emotional beats, and the supporting performances are impressive. But by removing this social context something significant is lost. As I watched the film I couldn’t help but wonder what insightful race and class politics could be explored by a more ambitious director. I wondered what Isabella’s story would look like if it was more faithful, depicting a woman escaping abuse at a point in history where doing so was near impossible. I left the film not angry in the way I thought I would be, but frustrated.  (Rosa Prior)

The Washburn Review does the same:

On its own, the movie can still be an enjoyable watch because of its strong performances, cinematography and few well-crafted scenes. But as an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, it  does injustice to Brontë’s work by replacing the novel’s complex exploration of morality, obsession and generational consequences with a more superficial focus on sensuality.

Ultimately, the adaptation forces a question: how far can a classic literary work be altered in the modern retelling before it wrongs the original work? (Ruksha Shrestha) 

And Revista Pazes (Brazil):

 Em “O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes”, o amor não aparece como abrigo confortável. Ele surge como força que aproxima, rompe, humilha, prende e consome — e é justamente por isso que essa história continua tão provocadora nas telas. (Gabriel Pietro) (Translation)

Even Men's Journal:

Is it supposed to be camp? Is it supposed to be genuine? Who can say. As with Saltburn, you can’t camp it up and then ask us to care about the characters. Fennell possesses a crucial misunderstanding of tone. You’ll know something is off around the time Cathy sucks on her lower lip while her maid kneads dough, but by the time she commits an act of fervent self abuse on the moors you’ll be drafting a letter to your local representative to say down with this sort of thing. And then we are supposed to care, after scenes of Heathcliff tying Cathy’s sister (Alison Oliver) up like a dog and humiliating her, about the plight of these star-crossed lovers? Even those with an exceptionally high tolerance, even appreciation, for bad taste will find challenges here.

In spite of itself, the movie is never boring to watch. Linus Sandgren’s sumptuous cinematography marks a high point in the DP’s storied filmography, with each moment so vividly rendered that it stands on its own as a tableau. And Suzie Davies’ production design is equally commendable, creating a dreamlike interpretation of a period setting that feels both vintage and futuristically alien. The Yorkshire setting of Wuthering Heights looks so fabulous that you almost want to live within it, just not with this cast of characters. (Declan Gallagher)

Nerd Daily interviews the author Linda Hamilton:

The [book] that you can’t stop thinking about: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. (Elise Dumpleton)

Die Presse (Austria) visits Brontë country looking for the locations of Wuthering Heights 2026:

Drehorte als Reiseziel: Stürmische Höhen im Yorkshire-Moor

Zu den Schauplätzen von „Sturmhöhe“, Emily Brontës Klassikers, im Norden Englands reisen: literarische Pilgerorte mit Kinobezug.

Schwarz ragt die Ruine der alten Bleimühle in den Himmel. Menschenleer liegen Hügel und Täler unter schweren Wolken. Das Gluckern des Flüsschens Old Gang Beck ist das einzige Geräusch, wenn nicht gerade ein Fasan auffliegt. Plötzlich erscheint Heathcliff unter einem Torbogen. Gleich wird Catherine sich in den Überresten des Torflagers der Bleihütte umdrehen und den sperrigen Antihelden der „Wuthering Heights“ nach Jahren der Trennung wiedersehen. Dass Emerald Fennells Filminterpretation des Klassikers großzügig neben der Hälfte des Romans auch die meisten Figuren weglässt und die Handlung auf die Vergeblichkeit der unheilvollen Beziehung zwischen Heathcliff und Catherine destilliert, schmälert seine Wirkung nicht. (Stefanie Bisping) (Translation)

Some websites still announce that the film is available on streaming right now: Billboard, Forbes, Page Six...

Sarah Collins Bookworm posts about her visit to Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

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Brontë Lounge with Essie Fox

A Zoom alert for tomorrow, April 2:

Brontë Lounge with Essie Fox

Thu 2 Apr, 7:30pm

Online via zoom

We are delighted to be welcoming author Essie Fox to the Brontë Lounge, where she will be discussing her latest novel Catherine: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights with host Helen Meller.

Essie’s debut, The Somnambulist, was shortlisted for the National Book Awards, and featured on Channel 4’s TV Book Club. Dangerous, a Regency gothic crime thriller featuring Lord Byron in Venice, was selected as a Times Book of the Month. There will also be a chance to ask questions on the night.

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Read the Brontës before discourse domesticates them

171 years ago, Charlotte Brontë died in Haworth. Some websites remember the event: Estadão (Brazil), Good News Network's quote of the day...  Coincidental or not, Parade informs how last night's Jeopardy! final Jeopardy was:

Final Jeopardy today was in the category “Fictional Characters.”

The clue: Literary theories say the first name of this 1847 title character is meant to evoke plainness while the last name hints at a bequest.

The answer: Who is Jane Eyre?

The Yorkshire Post tells about secret doors in Haworth's Oh La La - The Original Brontë Stationery Store:

While renovating her business in Haworth, Pamela Howorth discovered secret doorways where the Brontë sisters would have bought their writing paper.

In 2003, Pamela Howorth, 59, bought a rundown building on Main Street in Haworth and transformed it into a lingerie store called Oh La La.

The business was rebranded into a vintage shop in 2020 with a change of name to ‘The Original Brontë Stationery’ and Ms Howorth, originally from Bradford, delved deep into the history of the building. (...)

Through her research, Ms Howorth discovered that John Greenwood was the owner of the building in the 1800s when it was a stationery shop; Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte regularly bought their writing papers there.

During the renovation of the shop undertaken by Ms Howorth, she discovered secret doorways that were used to get into the building. (...)

During the 1800s, John Greenwood was running a general store in No. 36 Main Street.

“He was a tea merchant during the Brontës' time,” Ms Howorth said.

“Haworth Main Street at that time was a main turnpike road that took people from Toller Lane in Bradford through to Colne.

“From 1843 he started selling paper specifically to the Brontë sisters who were asking him for it and it was very expensive at that time so he couldn’t hold a lot of stock of it.

“But they would request him to get some paper for them and he would ride to one of the mills in Halifax, get the paper, bring it back for the Brontës to be able to do their writing.”

It is thought that upstairs in the shop was where people hand combed wool in the Victorian era.

Ms Howorth found out that the former owner John Greenwood kept diaries that she tried to find. (...)

“John Greenwood kept some diaries and he kept records of his meetings with Charlotte Bronte and her sisters,” she said.

“When Charlotte died, John contacted Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote the biography of Charlotte, and provided her with his information of what he knew about the family and a lot of it came from his diaries.

“She looked at his diaries and took excerpts from them but we don’t know where the diaries are, they never came to light. They may well have been destroyed.” (Liana Jacob)

The Phrasemaker recommends classic novels to read in 2026:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

If you have only encountered Wuthering Heights through reputation, there is a decent chance you imagine it as a tragic, windswept romance.

Emily Brontë’s novel is vicious, obsessive, inhospitable, and often emotionally feral. It is a novel about fixation, revenge, inheritance, cruelty, class, and the way desire can rot into something almost supernatural.

That is why it remains so magnetic, and why 2026 is a good year to read it. Emerald Fennell’s adaptation has already brought the novel back into public conversation after its theatrical release, which means readers are once again arguing about what the book actually is. A romance? A gothic nightmare? A destructive anti-love story? The answer is, conveniently, all of the above.

This is one of those classics that benefits from being read before you absorb too many takes about it. The novel is far rougher and more destabilizing than its cultural image suggests. (...)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre is the storm gathering behind the walls.

The announcement of a new 2026 television adaptation is enough reason to bring Charlotte Brontë’s novel back into view, but the real reason to read it is that Jane Eyre still feels startlingly forceful from the inside. Jane is a moral intelligence, a will, and a voice.

The novel fuses several things that do not always coexist easily: bildungsroman, gothic fiction, spiritual crisis, class conflict, and romance. It is intense without becoming shapeless. It is passionate without losing its sense of self-command.

And because so many later novels borrow from it, reading Jane Eyre in 2026 can feel like discovering the hidden template behind countless stories of emotional self-definition. (...)

Read the Brontës before discourse domesticates them. Read Austen before the algorithm turns her into posture. Read Dumas because narrative pleasure is not a lesser pleasure. Read Shelley, Stoker, and Wilde because the gothic never really went away, and 2026 seems determined to prove it.

The classics are back, once again. The best move is to meet them on the page first. (Vincent Halles)

Both novels are listed in this AI-generated 'greatest romance novels in 2026 Vocal Media's BookClub post. 

RissWrites lists period dramas available on Prime Video:

Jane Eyre, 1983

Is this another one I feature every time I put together this annual best Prime Video period drama list? Probably. But I think it’s a version not talked about as much as newer ones, plus objectively speaking, a version of Jane Eyre is always a good fit on a “best” period drama list. Timothy Dalton plays the iconic Mr. Rochester character in this Charlotte Bronte classic. This is also one of the rare adaptations from the BBC's 1980s films that I do actually like. It’s moody as it should be, and while kind of “clunky” at times, it’s ultimately a solid production that I’ve seen more than once. (Rissi JC)

El País (Spain) talks about the new Spanish edition of Susan Gubar and Sandra M. Gilbert's The Madowman in the Attic:

Cuando Charlotte Brontë publicó Jane Eyre en 1847, las escritoras británicas no tenían libertad para escribir. Cuando Sandra Gilbert y Susan Gubar escribieron La loca del desván, inspirada en el personaje de Bertha Mason de la novela de Brontë, se vivía en el mundo la segunda ola feminista. Era 1979. Hoy, casi 50 años después, la editorial Espinas ha reeditado el ensayo, considerado la primera crítica literaria feminista: una concatenación de mujeres recuperando el trabajo de sus predecesoras. (...)

Bertha Mason, la esposa de Edward Rochester en Jane Eyre, vive encerrada en el ático de su mansión por decisión de su marido, quien cree que ella ha enloquecido. Mason representa a la mujer marginada por el patriarcado, llamada histérica o loca cuando decide no cumplir con lo que se espera de ella: ser dócil, servicial, pasiva y abnegada. Las filólogas Gilbert y Gubar vieron en este personaje, un arquetipo constante en las obras de escritoras victorianas, una forma de expresar el malestar y frustración que vivían las autoras. Una manera de liberarse y decir aquello que no estaba permitido: mostrar sus experiencias en un espacio literario dominado por hombres y por un cánon patriarcal. (Constanza Pérez Z.) (Translation)

The streaming premiere of Wuthering Heights 2026 (on both Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV, Fandango at Home (US), Plex (US and and Canada), Rakuten TV (US), Sky Store (UK)) is mentioned in several news outlets: Cinebuzz (Brazil), Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, CinemaPlanet (Portugal), Decider, Collider, La Capital (Argentina)...

The Red & Black has a review of the adaptation. Nothing new:

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the film’s casting. Probably the biggest mistake of the movie is its failure to cast Heathcliff as a person of color. Heathcliff’s race influences his romance with Cathy, his way of viewing the world and the way he is treated by every other character. (...)

By miscasting Heathcliff, cutting the second half of the novel and sugarcoating their depiction of 19th-century class dynamics in the name of focusing on romance, the film removes the teeth from Brontë’s social commentary. Perhaps more significantly, though, given their goal, this misinterpretation also takes away anything that might give Heathcliff and Cathy’s relationship a claim to being “the greatest love story of all time.” (Alexa Smith)

More reviews: Diario de Córdoba (Argentina):

A veces, uno tiene la sensación de estar frente a un spot publicitario de dos horas y cuarto, porque la factura técnica es impecable y tendente al excesivo esteticismo, aunque la oscuridad se apodere de las atmósferas fotográficas en determinados pasajes.

No obstante, se nota ese intento de darle un estilo autoral a esta producción que no deja de ser gran formato, más centrada en lo formal que en el fondo de la cuestión y en profundizar en los personajes. (Manuel Ángel Jiménez) (Translation)

TelQuel (Morocco):

 La réalisatrice reste fidèle à elle-même : érotique, excessive, délibérément dérangeante. Les landes du Yorkshire y sont âpres et charnelles, la demeure des Earnshaw suinte la violence et la misère, en contraste brutal avec l'opulence froide des Linton. Quant au duo Margot Robbie – Jacob Elordi, il partage les avis : certains succombent à leur magnétisme, d'autres estiment qu'ils n'atteignent pas tout à fait la démesure que leurs personnages exigent. (Translation)

Daily Nexus:

The plot chronology was confusing. Once Cathy and Heathcliff age up, there is no sense of time and little elaboration. Fennell focuses mostly on style and little on actual substance. The film is engrossing and thoroughly entertaining, with humorous moments intertwined (Isabella and the dolls, need I say more), but it has so many loose ends that the film ends with the viewer emotionally unchanged.

She attempts to tie mutual obsession with erotic desire, but there’s a disconnect; it’s not passionate. There’s no burning and longing; it’s all physical lust. It lacks the emotional weight that an adaptation of the powerful and emotionally charged “Wuthering Heights” should possess.

Fennell’s interpretation is like the novel in name only and best enjoyed if the viewer forgets that it’s meant to be an adaptation at all. (Sophia Benito)

Boktanker also reviews the film in Norwegian. 

20 Minutos (Spain) visits both the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks. El Español (Spain) illustrates the dilemma of a young couple between watching Wuthering Heights, Santiago Segura's Torrente, presidente, or Pedro Almodóvar's Amarga Navidad. Vanity Fair (Italy) lists several cottages to live like Heathcliff and Catherine.

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The Last Wolf of Thornfield

A new mashup retelling, Jane Eyre and werewolves:

The Last Wolf of Thornfield: A re-imagining of Bronte's Jane Eyre

by Polly J Mordant

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0G1YHLLPY

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sigilhouse Press

April 1, 2026

This is no ordinary werewolf novel but a complete re-imagining of Bronte's Jane Eyre. There are monsters in that book, the most memorable being Edward Fairfax Rochester, a wolf of a totally different order.

Fast forward into the present day andyou'll find The Last Wolf of Thornfield is not a complete retelling. There is no woman, monstered and mad, held captive in its third floor attic. There is no whiff of bigamy. But there are resonances. The novel is, essentially, still a dark, gothic romance. But at its heart, it is also a full-blooded werewolf story: of Edward Fairfax, handsome and brooding, who hates what he is and is determined his line should not continue; and of his battles with a remotely related Highland pack which, since he refuses to take a mate, would wrest Thornfield from him and continue the line without him.

So far, so straightforward. Until a young woman, Jane Reid, arrives at the Hall not knowing what she really is or where her true origins lie.

... and that changes everything.

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Perfectly enjoyable but entirely silly

Evoke explores the filmography of Alison Oliver, including her Isabella in Wuthering Heights 2026. The film is reviewed in Vocal Media's Geeks (2 and a half weeks):

I do think this is one of those films that might work better if you have no attachment to the book. If I hadn’t read Wuthering Heights, I probably would have enjoyed it more as a visually striking, slightly chaotic gothic romance. But knowing the source material makes it hard not to notice what’s missing.

In the end, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I wasn’t really watching an adaptation of a literary classic, but rather someone’s personal, teenage interpretation of it. It’s a film that looks incredible, and there are moments that almost work, but it never quite captures the emotional depth or complexity of the original.

Olympic and The Globe and Mail discuss how Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier won ice dance silver at the figure skating world championships:

After skating to Govardo’s cover of “Vincent” at Milano Cortina 2026, Gilles and Poirier returned to an old favourite for their free program, performing their iconic Wuthering Heights routine from two seasons ago, earning 125.07 points. (Chloe Robisnon)

The Sunday Times recommends some podcasts:

 I have also loved recent episodes of The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe, including one in which Olivia Chaney shared the pinch-me backstory of how she heard that her haunting version of The Dark Eyed Sailor, recorded for Radcliffe’s show in 2013, was to have a star turn in the soundtrack of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights. (Patricia Nicol)

More Sunday Times. Now, Charlotte Ivers on sex on TV:

 I consider myself fundamentally unshockable when it comes to sex in film and television. I sat through Emerald Fennell’s perfectly enjoyable but entirely silly Wuthering Heights, rolling my eyes as the director tried to unnerve her audience with sexual imagery. It’s going to take more than a bit of misused riding equipment to shock anyone who grew up in the internet age. I felt like a tired husband on Valentine’s Day, my wife parading morosely around in frilly underwear, unable to draw my attention away from my phone.

La Tribuna de Albacete features the poet María Bernabeu and lists some of her more recent publications:

Entre sus últimas publicaciones destacan el artículo en inglés Catherine Earnshaw Meets Katherine Lester: Revisioning the Brontë Body by Sustaining the Self in William Oldroyd's Lady MacRbeth (2016) publicado en la revista especializada Brontë Studies 42(6); y el capítulo Reconsiderando y (des)mitificando cuerpos brontëanos a través de narrativas neo-victorianas en el volumen Narrativas y voces angloamericanas y gaélicas en clave feminista, editado por Rocío Riestra Camacho. (Translation)

Kelsie Beckman begins a series of videos where she tries to decide which Brontë she likes the most. In this first video, she discusses Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Anne Brontë.org posts about The Brontës in Palm Day.

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Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell. Their Lives, Friendship and Writings

A new book about the friendship of Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell:

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell

Their Lives, Friendship and Writings

by Susan Dunne´

Pen & Sword History

ISBN: 9781036135096

30th March 2026

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell shared one of the most remarkable literary friendships of the 19th century, one that ultimately led to the creation of one of the most controversial literary biographies ever written. The Life of Charlotte Brontë continues to spark debate over 150 years after its publication, but the deeper story of the friendship that inspired it has never been fully explored until now.

In this fascinating and well-researched narrative, the intertwined lives of these two literary greats come to life. What drew them together despite their contrasting personalities? How did they influence each other’s work, navigate the challenges of publishing, and contend with the harsh judgment of critics? Did Elizabeth Gaskell’s well-meaning interventions, both personal and professional, shape the course of Charlotte’s life in ways never before considered?

Through letters, historical records, and fresh insights, this book reveals the warmth, respect, and complexities of their brief but profound connection. A tale of admiration, resilience, and literary legacy, it sheds new light on the enduring impact of a friendship that helped shape our understanding of one of literature’s most beloved figures.

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Jane Eyre feels more like home to Aimee Lou Wood

The Standard interviews Aimee Lou Wood and she mentions her forthcoming Jane Eyre role.

Aside from film work, she has also been cast as Jane in a new television adaptation of Jane Eyre, a project she is, she says simply, “so excited” about. So, if Pattie Boyd represents discipline, Jane Eyre offers something else entirely.

“I think it's going to be great to then do something like Jane Eyre,” she explains. “It's like, ‘okay, I'm playing Pattie. She was this really cool style icon, gorgeous, popular, sociable, and then I'll get to go and play feral Jane, which feels that feels more that feels more like home to me.’” (Lisa McLoughlin)

Swooon echoes the news that the Wuthering Heights retelling The Favourites is getting its own screen adaptation.

Move over, Catherine and Heathcliff. It’s time to let Katarina “Kat” Shaw and Heath Rocha take center stage. Layne Fargo’s The Favorites altered our brain chemistry when she released her ice dancing romantic drama in 2025.

The Wuthering Heights retelling leaves the moors behind for the ice rink as Kat and Heath emerge from their troubled childhoods looking to win gold. On March 24, Deadline reported that The Favorites would be getting a Netflix movie adaptation. (Avery Thompson)

Micropsia reviews Wuthering Heights 2026:

The film doesn’t fail because it takes risks—if anything, its notion of transgression feels oddly adolescent—but because of the banality it ultimately imposes on what is, in essence, a profoundly tragic story of ill-fated lovers. (Diego Lerer)

La Gaceta (Argentina) and a contributor to Her Campus also discuss the film.

The Times has an article on the fact that some parents are 'paying up to £800 a day for live-in tutors over the Easter holidays as they seek last-minute help for their teenagers’ GCSEs and A-levels'.

It is reminiscent of the Victorian governess who would live with families while teaching their children, famously depicted in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

Jane Eyre could only dream of such a salary, though.

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Mary Janes and Dresses

Flabelus is a Spanish footwear brand founded in 2020 by Beatriz de los Mozos. The brand is best known for its Friulane or Venetian-style slippers, which are handcrafted in Spain using traditional techniques.

Eyre Mary Janes:

• Velvet Mary Jane in brown with green piping and buckle closure.
• The outside of the shoe is 100% cotton velvet, and the inside is 100% organic cotton with anti-bacterial treatment for comfortable, breathable wear.
• The sole is made of eco-friendly rubber from recycled bicycle tyres, providing durable, sustainable, and anti-slip support.

Lifestyle Asia gives further information:

Spanish footwear brand Flabelus names its ballet flats and mary janes after literary figures. This pair of mary jane shoes, an homage to Jane Eyre, is handcrafted from dusty green velvet and features Flabelus’s signature, ergonomic soles, made from the rubber of recycled bicycle tires. (Pameyla Cambe)

Jane Eyre short dress:

• Red & black, long puffed sleeves, ruffled cuffs, ruffled turtle neck & ruffled waist, short dress.
• Invisible zip fastening in centre back as closure.
• The fabric is made of 63% viscose, 37% silk.
• Lined with fabric made of 100% viscose.

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Wuthering Heights PVOP featurettes

Forbes reminds readers that Wuthering Heights 2026 will be available for streaming this week and also what this digital release will include.

Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, is coming to digital streaming this week. [...]

Warner Bros. announced recently that Wuthering Heights will arrive on digital streaming via premium video on demand on Tuesday, March 31. Wuthering Heights will be available to purchase on PVOD for $24.99 on such digital platforms as Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Prime Video and YouTube Movies & TV.

Since PVOD rentals are typically $5 less than purchase prices, viewers should be able to rent Wuthering Heights for 48 hours for $19.99.

Consumers who purchase Wuthering Heights on digital will have access to a commentary track by Emerald Fennell, as well as production featurettes. Per Warner Bros., the bonus featurettes, along with run times, are:

Threads of Desire (6:49)

"Jacqueline Durran brings Emerald Fennell’s imagined Gothic world to life through costume. Cathy’s evolving silhouettes unfold in clear acts, while Heathcliff’s transformation and the ensemble’s distinct looks reveal emotion, status, and obsession."

The Legacy of Love and Madness (5:32)

“Emerald Fennell reflects on her lifelong bond with Wuthering Heights and the hidden depravity of the Victorian era, reimagining Emily Brontë’s tale through emotion, memory, and desire to create an epic love story for a new generation.”

Building a Fever Dream (12:07)

“An in-depth look at how Emerald Fennell built a world that feels alive. Where design, sound, and performance fuse into one hypnotic vision of love, madness, and creation. The making of a living, breathing fever dream.”

Rated R, Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, will be released on PVOD on Tuesday. Warner Bros. also announced that the film, along with the same bonus features listed above, will also be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, May 5. (Tim Lammers)

The Santa Barbara Independent reviews the film:

Redressing — and, in this case, undressing — the classics can be risky business. At best, as with daring new stagings of standard rep operas, new insights can grace familiar works. Fennel’s adventure in rethinking a landmark tale ends up being something of a hit-and-miss, bump-and-grind affair. (Josef Woodard)

Diario de Córdoba (Spain) reviews it too.

A veces, uno tiene la sensación de estar frente a un spot publicitario de dos horas y cuarto, porque la factura técnica es impecable y tendente al excesivo esteticismo, aunque la oscuridad se apodere de las atmósferas fotográficas en determinados pasajes.

No obstante, se nota ese intento de darle un estilo autoral a esta producción que no deja de ser gran formato, más centrada en lo formal que en el fondo de la cuestión y en profundizar en los personajes. (Manuel Ángel Jiménez) (Translation)

The Times joins the many other sites featuring the so-called Brontë blush.

For The Telegraph, Charli XCX's Wuthering Heights album is one of 'The best albums of 2026 so far'.

Charli XCX, Wuthering Heights ★★★★☆

Emerald Fennell’s big-budget, bonk-busting adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel certainly ruffled a few feathers – including mine. But the film had one saving grace, in the form of Charli XCX’s trippy soundtrack, whose songs combine the Velvet Underground’s unparalleled knack for melancholy (John Cale features on the now-viral House) with Nine Inch Nails’s industrial riffs and Charli’s own blurry, distorted vein of electronica.

Taken as a follow-up to Charli’s culture-dominating 2024 album Brat, Wuthering Heights makes perfect sense – it’s the tragedies of modern life and love told through one of English literature’s most beloved stories; music you can both cry and dance to. As the 33-year-old pop star wryly put it, Cathy and Heathcliff’s romance descended into ruin “without a cigarette or a pair of sunglasses in sight,” those two items of vice being prominent symbols in Brat, which served as a chewed-up love letter to hedonism.

Wuthering Heights consists of just 12 songs, clocking in under 35 minutes. But songs like Dying for You, Chains of Love and Always Everywhere pack such a punch that their conciseness never feels like a curse. (Poppie Platt)

Movie Locations features the filming locations of Wuthering Heights 2026.

Lifestyle Asia features some 'chic literary accessories'.

Even celebrities can’t resist looking book smart: Billie Eilish is set to star in a film adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar; Margot Robbie found style inspiration from gothic fiction when promoting the Wuthering Heights movie in February [...]

Max Mara’s Fall/Winter 2025 collection was even inspired by Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. [...] (Pameyla Cambe)

Diario de Córdoba (Spain) looks at literary siblings, both real and fictional, including the Brontës.

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Wuthering Heights on Screen Seminar Day with Sam Hirst

Today, March 28, at the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

Wuthering Heights on Screen Seminar Day with Sam Hirst

Sat 28 Mar, 10:00am

The Brontë Space at the Old School Room

This full-day workshop explores the adaptation history of Wuthering Heights, from the lost 1920 film to the most recent adaptation. You will have the chance to explore the archive collection of behind-the-scenes materials. 

The day will be divided into three workshops:

• The first will explore early productions, including the lost 1920 film and the 1939 classic, and their impact on later adaptations.
• The second session will explore the history of Wuthering Heights on the small and large screen, looking at the ways it won its reputation as a romance, exploring behind-the-scenes details of production, and investigating how different adaptations faced the challenges of adapting the complex novel.
• The final session will explore international adaptations of Wuthering Heights from Medieval Japan to 20th-century France, looking at how a quintessentially Yorkshire novel was translated to different contexts.

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Jane Eyre in Coffs Harbour, Australia

A new adaptation of Jane Eyre is being performed in Coffs Harbour, Australia:

Live Theatre Inc. in partnership with CHATS Productions Inc. presents

Jane Eyre

Adapted and Directed by Emma Watson

Jetty Memorial Theatre, 337 Harbour Dr, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450, Australia

Friday 27 March – Sunday 5 April

Friday 27 March 7:30pm

Saturday 28 March: 2pm & 7:30pm

Sunday 29 March: 2pm

Wednesday 1 April: 11am & 7:30pm

Friday 3 April: 7:30pm with refreshments

Saturday 4 April: 2pm & 7:30pm with tea & biscuits

Sunday 5 April: 2pm with tea & biscuits

A fierce heroine. A gothic love story. A timeless classic reborn. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre comes vividly to life in this bold new stage adaptation. From her childhood as a spirited orphan to the shadowed halls of Thornfield, Jane’s journey is one of resilience, independence, and the unyielding search for belonging on her own terms.

With unforgettable characters, gothic atmosphere, and sweeping emotion, this production offers an evening of theatre that is both powerful and moving — a celebration of one of literature’s most enduring and beloved stories.

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Exhibitions and reviews

BBC News reports that wool artist Nicola Turner, whose work was seen in Wuthering Heights 2026, is going to have her installations on display at Yorkshire Sculpture Park..

A woollen sculpture created by an artist whose installations feature in the latest Wuthering Heights film is to go on display at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Time's Scythe, a "site-responsive installation" by artist Nicola Turner, uses wool from the British Wool Board in Bradford and will be on display from Saturday.

Turner is putting the finishing touches to the work, which will see an 18th-Century chapel at the Wakefield park covered in wool and horsehair.

She said she was inspired by the landscape and "energy" of the chapel and its rural surroundings.

"My material, which includes locally sourced wool, will pull, weave and grasp through the space with the final form emerging as I work in situ with the YSP team," she said. [...]

Turner's works appear in the Emerald Fennell version of Wuthering Heights, which stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi and was released in February.

Her large woollen sculptures hang from the walls and roofs of Wuthering Heights, the moorland house in which Cathy and Heathcliffe [sic] are raised. (Grace Wood)

More local exhibitions as The Telegraph and Argus features a series of Brontë portraits by John Ellis.

A series of portraits of the Brontës and people connected to them have gone on display in Thornton, to raise funds for the chapel where Patrick Brontë was a young curate.

The paintings, by John Ellis, were initially displayed in the Brontë Birthplace, which opened last year as a visitor centre and education hub. The Market Street property, where the Brontë siblings were born, was opened by Queen Camilla last May.

Says John: “In 2024 I and my late partner, Susan, and I were given a task to paint and draw a total of 34 pictures for the Brontë house in Thornton.

During the period of 12 months it took to produce the pictures, I lost Susan to a heart attack two thirds of the way through the year. After the funeral I carried on and finished all the pictures for the opening day and the visit of the Queen.”

Now John is exhibiting the portraits at St James’ Church in Thornton. The launch event included a raffle and sales of The Birthplace of Dreams, a book about the Brontë Birthplace by photographer and historian Mark Davis, to raise funds for the church and Thornton’s Bell Chapel. The exhibition is on for two weeks and has already raised more than £100.

“I have always loved drawing and painting, and clay modelling. I love to create things,” says John. “Art was my best subject at school. At 15 I left school to work at English Electric as an apprentice toolmaker then I was in the RAF for five years, during which my artist talents were used quite a lot. When I came out I went back into toolmaking.

“I met Susan in 2005 when I moved to Thornton; it was then that I started to take to my brushes again, doing commissions for family and friends. When we both retired we took it up much more - Susan with her drawings, she was really talented.

“At the beginning of 2024 I was painting the Brontë pillar painting when we saw an advert on Facebook about open day at the Brontë house in Thornton, so decided to go and see what it was all about.

“On arriving we were given a lecture about the house, then Christa Ackroyd (the broadcaster campaigned for crowdfunding for the Brontë Birthplace renovation) asked if we had anything to donate for furnishing the house. That’s when Sue nudged me in the ribs and said ‘Donate the painting you’re doing’.

So we showed Christa a photo of what I was doing and she asked me to do some more, to tell the story of how the Brontë family ended up on Market Street.

“Between us both, Sue and I did 34 paintings and drawings. I made the decision to keep the style of Bramwell Brontë, from the pillar painting, to give an air of the period we were talking about, plus the old fashioned style blended in with the house itself.

“I have painted all the family, but only Elizabeth and little Maria, the two older Brontë siblings, are on the painting of the house.

I have also put my little quirk on the paintings - a ladybird somewhere in the paintings and one on the back of the canvas.” [...]

As well as painting the family, John has created a portrait of Nancy De Garrs, who was 13 when the Brontës employed her as the children’s nanny in Thornton. Nancy outlived the Brontës and died, age 82, in Bradford Workhouse. (Emma Clayton)

Keighley News reports that the Old School Room has been granted a licence for the venue to serve alcohol between 9am and 11pm and host live music.

And more reviews of Wuthering Heights 2026:

From The Montclarion:

I left Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” feeling nothing. It was a visually pretty movie with unconventional costumes and two attractive leads, but it did not address race, class and gender roles the way the novel masterfully does.

Fennell stripped away what made the book so compelling and instead created pallid fanfiction. The fact that many others feel the same goes to show that we want stories to meaningfully engage with us.

Despite my negative feelings toward Fennell’s adaptation, the movie left me with hope. This decade has brought notable movie adaptations of classic novels — Emma, the Dune series, and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein”, to name a few.

“Wuthering Heights” reminds audiences what made those previous adaptations successful. The directors kept the essence of the novel while adding a few authentic touches. Fennell’s failure to do this sets a higher standard for adaptations of classics that online discourse has made loud and clear: Get the themes right. (Paula Milian)

Community Reporter:

Emerald Fennell’s unhinged version of “Wuthering Heights” is surely to be divisive. There’s a reason why the film’s poster displays the title in quotation marks. Those who are loyal to the novel might be jarred by the composition of this rendition, while casual movie watchers might be enthralled by the overall spectacle. What’s certain is that this is a dark, tragic and overwhelming experience. Amidst the highly stylized presentation is a story of dangerous and toxic love that envelops everything around it. I found it haunting me for days after I saw it. (Zach Murphy)

The Bates Student:

Perhaps, to avoid losing the meaning in adaptations, we might expand our definition from one of fidelity to one that includes artistic license. Those who are inspired by a work of art and set out to adapt it to a different medium or reimagine it in a new context have the discretion and freedom over what they produce. That’s the beauty of inspiration. However, I do also argue that it is necessary for creatives to be intentional about why portions of this story are appealing to them and what they are adapting. Purposefully cutting around central themes to the original almost defeats the purpose of adapting it (unless perhaps the changes help subvert and critically comment on the source material).

The original and adaptation can then be viewed as companion pieces, but that doesn’t mean that critical thinking stops outside the metaphorical door of the source material. Some people will definitely be watching this movie without the lens of the original. Saying the adaptation was bad doesn’t get to the deeper parts of the movie where the choices of creative liberty become under scrutiny as well.

The new work can be judged both alongside and outside the original work. This form of the adaptation, created with intentionality, becomes a way to let the story resonate with another person or different audience. It’s just important to realize which parts are resonating.

“Wuthering Heights” (2026) takes advantage of the aesthetics and narrative of the Gothic novel to market a highly romanticized and unconvincing tragic romance between two characters who are shadows of their literary counterparts. Irrelevant to the novel, this movie still leaves much to be desired emotionally and narratively. Much like its dreamy finish, the movie glosses over the themes of obsession, possession, and even the humiliation, pleasure, and pain found in sadomasochism and erratically jumps to a sudden erotic tone. At the end of it all you’re left with an empty and unsettled feeling, which is surprisingly close to how the book leaves you.

This film will no doubt be the introduction of many to Brontë’s story, maybe even inspiring some to pick up the physical book since they loved this movie so much. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Reading is good! But, after you see this movie or any of the many adaptations in theaters this year, expand your analysis to criticize both the adaptation and whether the resulting work is compelling in its own right. (Hadley Blodgett)

Razón + Fe (Colombia) considers the film is an 'absolute treason' to the original novel and that the 'deep Christian theme' of the novel is missing from the adaptation. A contributor to Her Campus also thinks that '“Wuthering Heights” is not actually Wuthering Heights'.

The Yorkshire Post features Haworth-based maker Rosalia Ferrara, who creates Brontë-inspired products and gave Emerald Fennell one of her tote bags. Historic UK looks at the possible inspiration behind Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. The Meaford Independent features the novel. Far Out Magazine has an article on the filming location of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights music video:

If you want to recreate the video accurately, you’ve got to get down to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, which is where you can also find Stonehenge; that’s two bits of history for the price of one. Specifically, an area called Baden’s Clump near the Sidbury Hill area of the chalk plateau was the very spot that Bush floated about like a possessed Cathy, pretending to be up in the wily, windy moors. (Aimee Ferrier)

Finally, an alert for today, March 27, in Palermo, Italy:

 Venerdì 27 marzo alle 18.00, appuntamento con "Righe Ribelli" alla Feltrinelli di via Cavour a Palermo.

Per il Club del libro, in programma (a ingresso libero fino a esaurimento posti) la lettura di "Cime Tempestose" di Emily Brontë. (Via Balarm)

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